Hohai University, located in Nanjing, is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education, featuring water conservancy, engineering and multidisciplinary development. It is one of the key universities implemented by the national "2 1 1 Project". The current party secretary of the school is Zhu Tuo, and the current principal is Wang Cheng.

The school has specialties such as Hydrology and Water Resources College, Water Conservancy and Hydropower College, Science College, Business School, Enterprise Management College, Public Administration College, Law School, Marxism College, Foreign Languages College, Physical Education Department, Dayu College (top talent training college), International Education College and Distance and Continuing Education College, and offers 56 undergraduate majors.